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impuissances

impuissances is the plural of impuissance.

Meaning of impuissance

Noun

impuissance (usually uncountable, plural impuissances)

  1. (usually) Impotence, weakness.
    • This fault, for a man not to be able to know himselfe betimes, and not to feele the impuissance and extreme alteration, that age doth naturally bring,[…]hath lost the reputation of the most part of the greatest men in the world.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about impuissances

What is impuissances the plural of?
Impuissances is the plural of impuissance.

Words near impuissances in the dictionary

  1. impugning
  2. impugnment
  3. impugnments
  4. impugns
  5. impuissance
  6. impuissances
  7. impuissant
  8. impulse
  9. impulse buy
  10. impulse buyer
  11. impulse buyers

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